Winter Games’ legacy: Canadian Resiliency
With a wink of its eye, Canada brought to close the Winter Olympics by making fun of one the glitches that plagued the first week of the games. As the closing ceremonies began, a mime with a tool belt came out to the caldron, where one of the legs was still in the floor of […]
Closing ceremony is unparalleled
There’s a reason we come, despite the nonsense. There’s a reason we come to the Olympics still, every two years now, despite the fact that sometimes you get William Shatner or the odd, massive inflatable moose. What with all the overdone stagecraft and security hassles, the butt-covering parsing of words or the smugness of IOC officials […]
Canada Beats Americans 2-0 for Third Women’s Hockey Gold
VANCOUVER — The U.S. women’s hockey team was hoping the pressure of playing at home would weigh too heavily on its Canadian opponents in Thursday’s gold-medal game. Instead, a capacity crowd at Canada Hockey Place that included Wayne Gretzky and actor Michael J. Fox, paired with a superhuman effort by Canadian goaltender Shannon Szabados, lifted Team […]
Four seeking asylum, make refugee claims
Four people who entered Canada as Olympic spectators have sought to stay in the country as refugees, Canadian immigration officials said yesterday. Just who the asylum seekers are and where they came from has not yet been made public. But Johanne Nadeau, spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said the four arrived from countries whose […]
Hilarious Figure Skating Pictures from the 2010 Olympics
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The Canadian Century?
In 1904 Canadian Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier made this prediction: “The 19th century was the century of the United States. I think we can claim that it is Canada that shall fill the 20th century.” Maybe Laurier was just a man 100 years before his time. As the world assembles in Vancouver for the Winter […]